Camelot: A Role-Playing Simulation for Political Decision Making

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0534602797 ISBN 13: 9780534602796

Publisher: Cengage Learning, 2005

CAMELOT: A ROLE PLAYING SIMULATION introduces you to the interactions of contending and contentious groups and individuals whose values and goals range from radical to reactionary. It addresses such issues as equal opportunity, right to life, freedom of expression, affirmative action, property rights, gay rights, and more. You will quickly learn that competing interests and viewpoints - with their varying degrees of organization and cohesiveness - make political decision-making complex, time consuming, exciting, and often difficult to predict.

About the Author:

James R. Woodworth has been a member of the Department of Political Science at Miami University (Ohio) since 1948. He received a Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University and had a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Minnesota. He has served in several administrative positions at Miami University, including the chair of the Department of Political Science, and associate dean of the College of Arts and Science. Dr. Woodworth has been a member of the Oxford City Council, chaired the Oxford Charter Commission and served as a trustee for a local hospital and as a consultant to the Fairfield (Ohio) Charter Commission. His publications include ATLANTIS: ROLE-PLAYING SIMULATIONS FOR THE STUDY OF AMERICAN POLITICS (with Robert Gump), PARLIAMENTARY PROCEDURE, plus articles.

Review:

Part I. 1. Local Government: Why Study It? 2. Who Governs, and to What Ends? 3. The Legal Authority of Cities: Constraints and Powers. 4. Sources of Local Government Revenues and Their Constraints. 5. Organized Interests in the Decision-Making Process. 6. Implementing Democracy. 7. Forms of Local Government. 8. Land-Use Planning, Planning Departments, and Planning Commissions. Part II. 9. Introduction to Simulation. 10. Starting the Simulation. 11. Issues. 12. Reference Materials. 13. Elections. 14. Role Descriptions, Settings, and Lists of Duties.